Up until Sunday afternoon, only about 15 skateboarders in the world had successfully completed the 360-degree loop ride made famous 20 years ago by Carlsbad skating legend Tony Hawk. Now, three more names — including the first woman — can be added to ...

Facing a federal indictment for misuse of campaign funds, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) is still the frontrunner in the race for the 50 th Congressional District — although with a shrinking advantage over Democratic challenger Ammar Campa-Najjar ...

The Padres think so highly of Luis Urias and expect so much of him that they wanted him to be ready. Really ready. The 21-year-old second baseman is the first arrival of the rest of their lives, and the hope is his first call-up to the big leagues is his ...

The Salk Institute received $48.5 million in private donations for the 2018 fiscal year ended June 30, the La Jolla biomedical nonprofit said. The amount is down from the banner year of 2013, when $93 million was raised. However, that year included a $42 ...

Re “White House flags return to full staff 2 days after McCain’s death” (Aug. 27): The pettiness and ego-maniacal self-centeredness of our president has been recognized by the veteran’s groups of the country that publicly called for him to “lower ...

The bill that would revise how California regulates the state power grid was amended late last week, prompting a fresh round of debate over the fate of the legislation. The new language posted online Saturday gives lawmakers nine months to consider how ...

San Diego has plenty of music festivals, but none are as stylistically diverse as The Carlsbad Music Festival. Friday and Saturday, I heard old time fiddling from Clinton Davis, the genial solo guitar musings of Gyan Riley, and festival organizer Matt ...

Saying desalination will guarantee the drinking water supply for future generations of Baja California residents, Gov. Francisco Vega de Lamadrid on Friday celebrated a groundbreaking ceremony for a desalination plant envisioned as the largest in the ...

With Tijuana and other rapidly growing coastal cities heavily dependent on the Colorado River, Baja California urgently needs to find new water sources. Baja California Gov. Francisco Vega de Lamadrid’s administration has offered a solution: Build the ...

Like many residents of Rosarito Beach, Victor Loza Bazan was a transplant. But he adopted this small oceanside city as his own, promoting Baja Sand, an annual sand sculpture festival that last month drew some 20,000 people. A well-know figure in the city ...

Today’s Back Story is about a recent international trip by reporter Peter Rowe and photojournalist Alejandro Tamayo. They only drove 30 miles from San Diego, but that took them to a foreign locale: Rosarito Beach. They visited that Baja California city ...

In the Baja California city of Rosarito Beach, President Donald Trump has plenty of critics. American critics. Ken Bell, a Californian who has lived here since 1999, recoiled when candidate Trump promised to build a border wall while trashing Mexican ...

With walnuts and pomegranates in season in Mexico, August is a good time to sample the dish known as chile en nogada. On Sunday, more than 4,000 people are expected at the Tijuana Cultural Center for a festival celebrating this traditional Mexican fare.

Some 600,000 residents of Tijuana and Rosarito Beach can expect to see their water deliveries shut off as soon as next weekend as a major aqueduct undergoes repairs. The shutdown, which could last from two to five days, will affect just less than one-third ...

Baja California’s state government has selected a bidder for the construction of a massive desalination plant in Rosarito Beach that eventually could supply water to San Diego County. The winning bid, announced last week, came from a consortium of two ...

An ex-police officer believed to be the chief hitman for the Sinaloa Cartel in Baja California has been arrested in Rosarito. Marco Tulio “El Marlon” Carrillo Grande is also believed to have been behind much of the violence in the state in recent ...

It would be a ground-breaking project for Baja California, the largest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere, situated on the Pacific Ocean in a corner of Rosarito Beach — and could one day serve as a supply for water consumers in San Diego County ...

launching a new life as the state’s first artificial reef. Hundreds celebrated the feat on a warm and cloudless afternoon. This brief moment was eight years in the making — an occasion that is raising hopes for the creation of a diving-oriented tourism ...

Neighbors in this oceanfront community grew alarmed as they watched the growing piles of discarded tires and empty bottles, the rising mounds of corks and bottle caps accumulating on Sandra Moffat’s property. “We had lots of complaints. They assumed we ...

Neighbors in the hillside neighborhood of Lomas del Desierto knew little about the elderly American woman who shared their quiet unpaved street. Helen Dike Minney, 96, had moved there recently with two caretakers, and seldom left the small, two-story house ...